Contact Dr Jerry Luo
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754687
- Email: Z.Luo@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Hydrogen
- Nanotechnology
- Renewable Energy
Background
Dr Jerry Luo is a Reader in Energy Storage and Harvesting at ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥. His current research focuses on Renewable Energy and Energy Harvesting, including projects developing solar-to-hydrogen generation and researching on energy harvesting materials/devices. He has expertise in energy systems and devices, from materials research to system design and prototyping. He completed his PhD at the University of New South Wales (Australia). During PhD he was awarded a fellowship and worked at Technical University Darmstadt (Germany) as a visiting researcher. After his PhD he has been working in the universities in Australia and the UK, and joined Cranfield in 2016.
His research has been sponsored with funding over £3.6M, from EPSRC, Innovate UK, RAEng, HEIF (Higher Education Innovation Fund) and industry. He has been the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of 14 Innovate UK projects, 1 EPSRC ICASE project collaborated with BAE Systems, and 1 EPSRC Researcher in Residence. He received an ICURe Award in 2019, a Golden Award for Academic Excellence in Hydrogen Research in 2024, and nominated for Earthshot Prize 2024. He has over over 60 publications and 5 patents. His current research group has 2 postdocs and 8 PhDs, and runs a laboratory well equipped for research on energy materials and devices.
Research opportunities
PhDs, MSc by Research, visiting academics and exchanged PhDs are welcome. You will be supported by my research group and laboratory, and involved in the exciting research projects.
If you are interested in the PhD study in my research group please contact me. PhD scholarships are available from time to time.
We recruit postdocs from time to time. Please contact me and we can discuss the opportunities.
Master placement, PhD exchanges, visiting academics please contact me to discuss the opportunities.
Current PhD students: 8 students
Current activities
1. Innovate UK 'Utilising green hydrogen to decarbonise the semiconductors industry' (PI, £209k, 2024 - 2026)
2. GFIL-TAF- HyWaves Local Green Hydrogen (PI, £50k, 2024)
3. British Council 'CPV for green hydrogen production' (PI, £40k, 2024 - 2025)
4. Innovate UK 'Shoreside Power from Optimised Hydrogen Lifecycle (SPOHL)' (PI, £151k, 2024 - 2025)
5. Innovate UK Energy Catalyst mid-stage project 'Hybrid energy system for clean cooking and electricity generation' (2023 - 2024, £121k)
6. EPSRC ICASE PhD project sponsored by EPSRC and BAE Systems (PI and supervisor, 2020 -2024);
7. Innovate UK Energy Catalyst project 'A CSP and TFG hybrid energy system' (PI and Project Lead, £299,918, 2020 - 2021, completed);
8. Innovate UK project 'Development of a shortlist-and-test diagnostic platform for brucellosis in livestock' (PI, £266,946, 2019 - 2022, completed);
9. EPSRC Researcher in Residence ''Renewable energy integrated intelligent charging system for EV', EP/T517306/1, (PI, £49,781, 2019 - 2021, completed);
10. Innovate UK project 'CoolerSun: creating a clean and reliable cooling, heating, water treatment and electricity' (PI, 2020, completed);
11. Innovate UK project 'HH-Gen: High performance green hydrogen generation from solar energy' (Co-I, £311,153, 2020-2021, completed);
12. Innovate UK project 'Second Life Batteries for Commercial Energy Use' (Co-I, £411,477, 2020-2021, completed);
13. Innovate UK project 'Advanced grid services provided by optimised EV community and fleet charging' (Co-I, £200,595, 2020-2021, completed);
14. Innovate UK project 'Development of a low carbon heating and cooling system with storage and gender-based temperature regulation for public and commercial buildings' (Co-I, £312,350, 2020-2021, completed);
15. Higher Education Innovation Fund 'Demonstration of Thermo-Foil-Generator (TFG) for Industrial Waste Heat Recovery' (Co-I, 2020, completed);
16. MSc Group project sponsored 'Renewable energy integrated base stations and their energy management' by Mobile Broadband Network Limited (Co-I, 2020, completed);
17. Innovate UK ICURe Award 'Make sense of your sole' (PI, 2019, completed);
18. MSc Group project 'Detection system for overhead distribution cable positional faults' sponsored by UK Power Networks Limited (Co-I, 2019, completed);
19. EPSRC eFutures sandpit 'Feasibility study Maternal IoT garment for foetal electrocardiogram' (PI, 2018, completed)
Clients
Public Clients:
- Innovate UK
- EPSRC
- Newton Fund
- The Higher Education Innovation Fund
- RAEng
Industrial Clients:
- BAE Systems
- Mobile Broadband Network Limited
- UK Power Networks Limited
- Thermoelectric Conversion Systems
- TFG Global Power
- FocalSun
- Biotangents
- IceRobotics
